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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1955
Page
2
Lawrence Journal-World announces staff roles with Simons as editor and Pontius as editor and publisher. Ad Director, managing editor, and staff listed. Subscription rates shown for carrier and mail in various counties and regions. Includes postal and AP affiliation notes.
The Larned Tiller and Toiler discusses Adlai Stevenson's remarks on international relations. Analysts find the speech vague on immediate actions and clear only on long term policy. It notes Stevenson may oppose administration moves once action begins, while acknowledging Eisenhower’s flexible stance.
In Douglas County zoning debate city residents push for orderly rules while rural neighbors resist a planned expansion. West Lawrence sees annexation as route to enforce zoning, with Sunset Hill spur noted. Fringe-area construction reportedly accelerates before zoning or annexation, inviting stricter regulations.
Kansas cities face revenue gaps for water, paving, and parking as populations rise. Officials call it growing pains while communities wrestle with funding gaps and strain on services. The piece notes tensions among residents and groups over fairness in sharing the burden of growth.
A West Coast session of the American Academy of General Practice heard doctors list five common annoyances from patients. They include self diagnosed prognosis, interrupting conversations, bringing others to demand details, casual late afternoon drop ins, and ignoring receptionists.
The Associated Press summary notes the Supreme Court faces how and when to end school segregation after ruling it unconstitutional last May. Justices may set a deadline or delay until fall, with states varying from immediate action to outright closure of public schools for white and Black students. Governors and lawyers push for a range of timelines and local adjustments.
Hal Boyle reports on a 20th century desert party near the Sphinx in Egypt. The 100 guests and entourage, including 50 camels 25 horses and 14 belly dancers, trek across sands to a vast oriental tent. A midnight feast follows with lamb, okra, rice and coffee as a khamseen wind rises and the party ends, recalled as an Elsa Maxwell evening.
A refined account notes that a pie fies photo was published the same day in the Lawrence Journal-World at Twelfth and Baltimore at 1 30 pm, processed for the home edition The World de move and World de move the news fast Kansas City Kansan. The item mentions the era of streamlined motor cars and public fascination with wind resistance. Hutchinson News-Herald.
A garbled column notes a husband and wife money joke, an Indian man stealing a truck with beehives, police response to a used car, an oldsters’ jab at the modern smart set, and a quip about a girl in a pool being skinny.
The common cold is cited as our costliest disease with at least 150 million working days lost and a $4 billion annual drain in wages production and medical expenses. Ruskin’s disdain led to Whistler libel damages and a coin used as a watch charm. Pepys diary preservation noted with Magdalene College Cambridge. A moving object cannot reverse course without stopping briefly as a bullet rises then falls.
A biblical verse quotes the Lord asking whom to send and replies Here am I send me from Isaiah 6 8 highlighting readiness to serve and respond to a divine call in a concise devotional note.
Washington reports a sharp critique from House Agriculture on Secretary Benson’s handling of the foreign disposal program. The piece notes U S efforts to sell surplus grain abroad, the alleged policy flaws, and the impact on world trade, with figures on sales and future prospects.
An array of brief notices reports Pvt Omer Buck messaging his wife from a receiving hospital after arriving from overseas wounded in Iwo Jima with the Fourth Marine Division. Also promoted sergeant Donald Schnider, a waist gunner on a Flying Fortress. Local marriage announcement Wilma Gertrude Wells to Ronald Kent Johnson on April 7. A clothing drive seeks 75,000 pounds of used garments for war victims with schoolchildren collecting. Mothers Club of First Christian Church marks 10th anniversary. WAC PFC Mary Wise honored guard with a Greensboro train body escort for President Roosevelt. Socials: Howard Towner Ralph Starling Edward Chamney hosts. attendees listed. Bismarck school kids hike to Elmer Wise home for a wiener roast with chaperones. Local films this week include The 13th Chair Party Girl High Society Blues and Light of the Western Stars. Woodmen of the World delegates arrive. Miss Julia McGrath returns from Kansas City. others travel there for events. H L Winey attends Kansas Retailers Association meeting in Wichita. George Ware returns from Excelsior Springs visiting friends, others motor to Kansas City.
Radio and TV program copy shows schedule lines for stations WDAF KMBC WREN KFKU WDDAF KMBC-WA and others. Listings cover Thursday April 14 and Friday April 15 with hour by hour show names hosts and times across multiple channels and both radio and television programs.
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